Watchmen.
Best "Superhero" movie ever.
The end.
Now, I have to disagree with you good buddy on this one.
I will say, I stayed for the whole thing. It was a slimy, anti-freedom-whine-fest. Compromise with human slavery (i.e. communism) was held up as an ideal worthy of sacrificing untold millions to "unite" the world in WAR (called peace in the movie) against Dr. Dangle, who was entirely innocent. Dr. Dangle's super-powers are intentionally kept in check so as to prevent more logical questions from arising - such as, Why, if he is a human god, didn't he just flit from Soviet Silo to Silo replacing the uranium/plutonium in all the Soviet missles with mud? Well, because that would make things too easy, by passing what this movie is really about - getting you to fear and loathe everything around you so much that you'll scream for change, any change, RIGHT NOW. Make "peace" with a brutal dictatorship RIGHT NOW. And what would that peace entail? Would that entail sacrificing property rights? Anything for "peace?" Would that entail nationalizing the means of production to smooth relations with our newfound ally? How about murdering those “misguided” enough to protest against any such measures? Would they be murdered for the new “peace?”
It is unfortunate that Dr. Dangle was not endowed with super-human Judgement. He seemingly buys the villian's ridiculous plan without hesitation, condemns those living under the brutal dictatorship of the CCCP to decades more of Soviet night, butchers his own friend in the most grotesque way (couldn't he just cause a brain embolism or teleport his heart into space? He had to blow his friend up!?), and then leaves happily bearing the blight on his own name - a name which is totally innocent. Also he leaves the villain standing.
It's amazing to me that the makers of this Movie can have a sociopathic rapist "Superhero" (the Comedian) whine about how the American Dream came true even while he's mowing down protestors. To blame the "American Dream" for the way things turned out under an apparently facist american regime (under a Roosevelt-esque Nixon complete with pinnochio nose) is truly bizarre. Similar to, and connected with, blaming capitalism for economic problems when capitalism has never existed and could never have existed in such a place.
Like "V for Vendetta," the "Watchmen" is just a shiny neon fig-leaf for wrinkly, tired and discredited Socialist propaganda."